going to upgrade to leopard

[otispunkmeyer]

hey guys, was gonna upgrade to leopard on launch day but just didnt get around to it... was just as well really seeing as there were a fair share of little problems.

i assume now that all is well and ironed out?

i have a 2.4ghz MBP 15.4incher, i just upped it to 4Gb of ram and its flanked by a 400GB external USB hard disk and a 160GB portable hard disk, so (house cleaning permitting) i should be set for time machine.

i do you use parallels however and at the moment its pretty critical that my VM doesnt die or get corrupt or erased.

can i install leopard as an upgrade and still be able to use parallels without reinstalling?

 

[Parasitic]

I have Parallels installed on my Macbook. The version right out of box was a little buggy under Leopard, but after an update it seemed ok.
I thought VM's are stored as a single file so maybe you can just back it up?

 

[randomlinh]

I did just that, and it worked fine. Granted, given you say it's critical at the moment, I wouldn't even touch upgrading, and wait for 10.5.2. I have no issues, but why would you want to do a relatively major upgrade when stuff is critical at the moment (given the way you said it, I'm assuming there's a better time you could be doing this...).

 

[otispunkmeyer]

yeah there is a better time, but its not that far away

besides i dont think theres gonna be a point where i can do without parallels....only times when im going to be able to fix a fuck up without it hindering what im doing too much. parallels has died on me before when it crashed and i had to actualy take the battery out of my machine just to get it to turn off and restart. windows would not boot after that, but i did manage to save all the important stuff using parallels explorer. so really there is no ideal time, just times that are less worse than others.....and i dont wanna be sat with tiger all year!

 

[umrigar]

Wait until 10.5.2.

 

[secretanchitman]

you have critical stuff and if you do upgrade now, im pretty sure it wont get touched, but just to be safe, wait until 10.5.2.